Tesla shocked a lot of people when they announced last year that all their cars are now “self-driving ready” – potentially making them the first automaker with future-proof cars through upcoming software updates.

But those updates have been delayed and the lead position for the race to autonomous driving is still up for grabs.

Now GM is claiming that lead position and linking their autonomous driving effort to electric vehicles in order to compete with Tesla.

The automaker released its autonomous driving investor presentation today – embedded in full below.

One of the biggest takeaways of the presentation is that GM “believes that all autonomous vehicles must be electric vehicles.”

At Electrek, we have long been promoting that the future of ground transport is electric and autonomous. So far, Tesla has been the leader of that vision with all their cars being fully electric and autonomous-ready if we are to believe their claim.

We are happy to see that GM appears to now be fully on board with that same vision.

I think the race to an electric and self-driving ride-sharing network is getting more and more exciting by the day. We have seen Tesla as a leader for a long time, but with the delays in the Autopilot program, it looks like the leadership position is up for grabs and this is GM trying to show that they are the leader now.

Ultimately, it’s hard to tell at this point. GM recently took journalists on test rides in their latest prototypes in San Francisco and some were more impressed than others. We weren’t invited to that event.

We would have to test both their system and Tesla’s latest build of self-driving software in an AP 2.5 car in order to have a valuable opinion.